Kay-Michael Dankl

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Kay-Michael Dankl (born October 29, 1988 in Graz , Austria ) is an Austrian member of the youth organization Junge Linke and politician of the KPÖ PLUS , and a member of the Salzburg City Council. He was mayor and top candidate in the municipal council elections in the city of Salzburg on March 10, 2019 and gained 3.7% of the votes. On May 8, 2019, he was officially sworn in as a member of the parish council.

Life

Kay-Michael Dankl was born in Graz, he lived in Uttendorf (Pinzgau), attended the Gnigl elementary school and then the Salzburg federal high school . For family reasons, Dankl moved to Tucson, Arizona, in 2002, where he graduated from high school. In 2005 he moved back to Salzburg, Austria and started studying history at the University of Salzburg . Dankl worked there as a tutor and study assistant. After completing his diploma studies, from August 2013 to July 2014 he completed a one-year service abroad at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg . Dankl lives in Parsch , works as a museum guide and is studying law and history as a doctorate .

Political career

From 2009 to 2013 Dankl was involved with the Austrian Students' Union as a student representative for history and as a consultant for educational policy. In 2009 he took part in the protest movement “Unibrennt” . Between 2007 and 2012 he was involved in debating and took part in several international debating tournaments. Dankl participates in several civil society initiatives in Salzburg, including the platform against the law and solidarity of Salzburg.

From 2015 to 2017 Dankl was Federal Chairman of the Young Greens . In 2017 he was elected head of the Green Party Academy in Salzburg. After the youth organization was kicked out by the Federal Green Party , he resigned his membership and supported the establishment of the left-wing interactive platform PLUS - Platform Independent & Solidaric (Source 12), which ran together with the KPÖ as KPÖ PLUS for the 2017 National Council election. Dankl is an activist of the Young Left , which was founded in 2018 as an independent youth organization in Austria.

In the municipal council election in the city of Salzburg on March 10, 2019, when the KPÖ was last missing 50 votes to move in, Dankl ran as first listener and mayoral candidate for KPÖ PLUS. The party gained 3.7% of the vote. Since May 8, 2019, he has been a member of the municipal council and a member of the control committee.

Publications

  • Dankl, Kay-Michael (2012): From the green revolution to the present day land grabbing: transnational land purchases in the context of global agricultural developments since the 1970s, diploma thesis at the University of Salzburg.
  • Dankl, Kay-Michael, Linhuber, Peter and Pichler, Luisa (2010): The Ausseerland in the interwar period: economy, politics, society and culture in the years 1929–1934.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b KPÖ-PLUS in Salzburg: “We are not there yet”. In: mosaik-blog.at. March 13, 2019, accessed on May 7, 2019 (German).
  2. ↑ KPÖ: KPÖ PLUS creates a small sensation in Salzburg. In: kpoe.at. March 10, 2019, accessed May 7, 2019 .
  3. ^ ÖVP provides mayors and a relative majority. May 9, 2019, accessed May 9, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b Kay-Michael Dankl , kpoeplus-sbg.at, accessed on May 9, 2019.
  5. ↑ Kay-Michael Dankl, born 2013, 01/08/2013 - 31/07/2014 , auslandsdienst.at , February 3, 2016
  6. ↑ Giant poster on the fortress for educational reform , Salzburg, orf.at, November 2, 2009
  7. ↑ Hot debates in the cold season , afa.at , Global View 4/2009, p. 28
  8. ^ Status of the league after the Austrian Open , Free Debating League 2011/12, December 18, 2011
  9. ^ Protest against black and blue in the city of Salzburg , Salzburger Nachrichten , January 13, 2018
  10. ↑ Fortress Europe a trap , Südwind Magazin, September / October 2018
  11. ↑ Cengiz Kulac is no longer the spokesperson for the Young Greens , Der Standard , January 7, 2015
  12. ↑ Flora Petrik elected head of the Young Greens , Die Presse, January 9, 2017
  13. ↑ Portrait: Kay-Michael Dankl, KPÖ Plus , Salzburger Nachrichten , March 5, 2018
  14. ↑ New team of GBW Salzburg elected , gbw.at, November 28, 2017
  15. ↑ Robert Kriechbaumer (2018): Just an interlude? The Greens in Austria from the beginning until 2017, p. 573.
  16. ↑ “We can make a difference” , mosaik-blog.at, February 14, 2019
  17. ↑ Salzburg elects: KPÖ Plus is aiming to move into the municipal council , meinviertel.at , January 28, 2019
  18. ↑ Kay-Michael Dankl in an S24 interview , salzburg24.at, April 3, 2019
  19. ↑ Salzburg City: New City Council solemnly sworn in, regionews.at, May 8, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Dankl, Kay-Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz , Austria